Long distance relationships are notorious for having a high degree of difficulty. On the surface, it would seem that the Internet would make it easier to cope with being away from the one you love. But while video chats and instant messages are indeed essential links to a faraway sweetheart, they’re also a painful reminder of what’s missing.
Simply put, if you’re in a long distance relationship, you can use all the support and inspiration you can get. Fortunately, you can always lean on the experiences of other people who have been in your shoes. Not only do they prove that long distance relationships can indeed work, but they’ve left many priceless words of wisdom on the subject.
So, without further ado, here’s a collection of the best long distance relationship quotes of all time. Whether you’re sad about saying goodbye (again) or just feeling lonesome, these time-tested sayings will give you and your distant love a much-needed boost.
- “In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.”
Hans Nouwens
- “Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.”
Dee King
- “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
Charles M. Schulz
- “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
- “That farewell kiss which
resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.”
George Eliot
- “I exist in two places, here and where you are.”
Margaret Atwood
- “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
Alcibiades
- “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).”
E.E. Cummings
- “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames
the great.”
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
- “Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
Miguel de Cervantes
- “Distance is not for the fearful, it’s for the bold. It’s for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a
little time with the one they love. It’s for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough.”
Meghan Daum
- “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
Nicholas Sparks
- “If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you.”
Unknown
- “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
Calla Quinn
- “The pain of
parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens
- “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”
Doug Fetherling
- “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
Albert Ellis
- “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
John Dryden
- “Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.”
Munia Khan
- “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”
Steve Maraboli
- “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Thomas Fuller
- “We were together even when we were apart.”
Shannon A. Thompson
- “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
Andrew Davidson
- “Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is.”
Unknown
- “Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its
eyes are for the stars.”
Gilbert Parker
- “Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
- “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share
the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”
Donna Lynn Hope
- “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.”
Tom McNeal
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
- “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”
Edward Thomas
You know who else said a lot of profound things about love? William Shakespeare. For a list of The Bard’s greatest romantic quotes, see this article.